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“Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by creaghpatr »

duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Useful is debatable, but his comments are relevant since he's on the federal task force for reopening the economy.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by dustingetz »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #17
crispyambulance wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He's wetting his feet, it seems, for some political aspirations. I mean, hit TV show + billionaire + massive ego + mis-informed? opinion on everything ==> presidential material, right? Kind of tired of seeing his face and hearing his voice, but somehow I suspect we'll see more and more of it.

Cubes has always been outspoken. He's been almost as publicly known for 20 years and certainly winning the title in 2011 gave him more prestige. He'd make a decent candidate though. He's a Democrat (I guess he could run as a Republican, too) from the South with a bigger built-in fanbase than anyone else mentioned in this comment thread. He's run his organization for a long time with advanced stats, so he's no dinosau…

"the title"

> On June 12, 2011, the Mavericks defeated the Heat to win the NBA Finals.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by vkou »

bhupy wrote: post #16
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

> Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? It seems to me that the most effective trait in a politician is strategic decision-making, capability of applying abstract thinking to different situations (which comes particularly handy during crises), and figuring out how to get the right people together and get them to cooperate. All of these also strike me as traits in executives and effective…

The problem is that it is hard to differentiate between lucky idiots who failed upwards, and actually capable executives, who know when to defer to expertise.

Executives are judged on results - which are heavily influenced by circumstances that can be entirely outside the executive's control.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by tboyd47 »

muh_gradle wrote: post #22
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Cuban is an ok guy, but the healthcare comments are a good example of him being plain wrong. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/11/04/s... This is an example of him arguing with a MD. Cuban takes an issue with the doctor stating that consumer driven health care from non medical professionals is responsible for overuse of antibiotics. Cuban gets heated and dismisses the doctor as a quack when the doc…

He always does this on Shark Tank too. Guy has some kind of issue with doctors.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by SamReidHughes »

muh_gradle wrote: post #22
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Cuban is an ok guy, but the healthcare comments are a good example of him being plain wrong. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/11/04/s... This is an example of him arguing with a MD. Cuban takes an issue with the doctor stating that consumer driven health care from non medical professionals is responsible for overuse of antibiotics. Cuban gets heated and dismisses the doctor as a quack when the doc…

The "MD" was a guy on Shark Tank asking for an investment in his vitamin supplement company.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by koboll »

muh_gradle wrote: post #22
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Cuban is an ok guy, but the healthcare comments are a good example of him being plain wrong. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/11/04/s... This is an example of him arguing with a MD. Cuban takes an issue with the doctor stating that consumer driven health care from non medical professionals is responsible for overuse of antibiotics. Cuban gets heated and dismisses the doctor as a quack when the doc…

That doctor was selling a supplement. Supplement sales are largely scams, even the ones that are "developed by doctors".

Also, its name is almost certainly designed to confuse consumers by sounding similar to "Z-Pak", aka azithromycin, which is an antibiotic.

I'm not sure why we should expect doctors to be experts on the market forces behind antibiotic use, and there's plenty of reason to be skeptical of that specific doctor's motives.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by duxup »

itronitron wrote: post #15
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

He was an executive producer for the movie 'The Road' (a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film) so he at least has a passing interest in the topic.

I'm not sure what that ... should mean.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by woobity »

duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

Is there some reason to think that Altman has any useful insight here? Really.

And people are calling out Cuban as being a one hit wonder. Altman doesn't even have that, Path was an abject failure. He's just been appointed to his roost by the SV overlords.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by papito »

crispyambulance wrote: post #11
duxup wrote: post #7

Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He has done well for himself but he seems more than willing to make quips well outside of his knowledge base. Specifically I'm thinking of some off the cuff tweets regarding personal healthcare that seemed to be pretty far off base. Maybe that was a one off thing but I recall some others even regarding personal finance that seemed questionable.

> Is there some reason to think Cuban has some useful thoughts here? He's wetting his feet, it seems, for some political aspirations. I mean, hit TV show + billionaire + massive ego + mis-informed? opinion on everything ==> presidential material, right? Kind of tired of seeing his face and hearing his voice, but somehow I suspect we'll see more and more of it.

Yes. Listen to his last interview on Recode Decode. He openly says he could run.

Re: “Out of the Crisis” Podcast

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Post by woobity »

kevinskii wrote: post #29

"The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. He has been one of the leading Silicon Valley figures helping the entire biotech industry make a complete pivot to working on solutions: vaccines, therapies, and eventually a cure." Ok, no disrespect to Sam Altman, but come on .

The entire biotech industry? Surely you kid.

My wife works in biotech in SV and has never heard of him.

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